Birding in the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park is spectacular.   The area has a wealth of resources for our bird watching residents and visitors.  Many of the birds that frequent this area:

  • “Mexican Duck” (Mallard)
  • Golden Eagle
  • Peregrine & Prairie Falcons
  • Scaled Quail
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • White-throated Swift
  • Eastern & Western Screech-Owls
  • Acorn Woodpecker
  • Hutton’s Vireo
  • Pyrrhuloxia
  • Canyon Towhee
  • Rufous-crowned & Black-chinned Sparrows
  • Lesser Goldfinch are present year-round
  • Common Black-Hawk
  • Zone-tailed & Gray Hawks
  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Poorwill
  • Cordilleran Flycatcher
  • Violet-green & Cave Swallows
  • Phainopepla
  • Black-capped Vireo
  • Gray Vireo
  • Colima Warbler
  • Lucy’s Warbler
  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Sage Thrasher
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Black & Say’s Phoebes
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Mexican Jay
  • Verdin
  • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
  • Rock & Canyon Wrens
  • Curve-billed & Crissal Thrashers
  • Whip-poor-will
  • Band-tailed Pigeon
  • Elf & Flammulated Owls
  • Lucifer Hummingbird
  • Blue-throated Hummingbird
  • Magnificent Hummingbird
  • Broad-tailed & Rufous (by July) Hummingbirds
  • Cassin’s Clay-colored, Brewer’s Sage, & Baird’s Sparrows
  • Varied and Painted Buntings
  • Bronzed Cowbird
  • Hooded and Scott’s Orioles (Summer)
  • Anna’s Hummingbird
  • Yellow-bellied
  • Red-naped Sapsuckers
  • Townsend’s Solitaire
  • Mountain & Western Bluebirds

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